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Berks County (Pennsylvania Dutch: Barricks Kaundi) is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census , the county's population was 428,849. [ 2 ] The county seat is Reading , the fourth-most populous city in the state. [ 3 ]
Jan. 20—After nearly four years of preliminary discussions, the Berks County commissioners took the first official steps toward building a new county prison. The commissioners voted during their ...
Feb. 26—Caernarvon Township supervisors faced resistance over a vote to advertise a zoning overlay that would facilitate turning the Morgantown Airport property into a residential development.
She also served as the Commission chair from 2004 to 2007. [7] ""I always thought Berks County was property-tax central," said state Sen. Judy Schwank, a Democrat whose district is in Berks County." [8] In 2004, she was appointed by Governor Ed Rendell as chair of the Pennsylvania State Planning Board. [7]
Perkiomen Creek joins the Schuylkill River west of Norristown Perkiomen Creek in Rahns, Pennsylvania in May 2021. Perkiomen Creek is a 37.7-mile-long (60.7 km) [1] tributary of the Schuylkill River in Berks, Lehigh and Montgomery counties, Pennsylvania. [2] The water course was also named Perquaminck Creek, on Thomas Holme's 1687 map.
Philadelphia County is unique in Pennsylvania in that it is a consolidated city-county, and so while the county is technically not governed by a home rule charter (and is therefore not included on the list), the fact that Philadelphia City (which constitutes the same land area as and administers all the governmental affairs of Philadelphia ...
Plans to remove the PA 100 designation along this stretch date back to 1990 when the municipalities along the route, with support from the West Chester Regional Planning Commission, passed resolutions to remove the designation. The plan was approved by the Chester County Planning Commission in 1999 and was approved by PennDOT in 2002.
Location of Berks County in Pennsylvania. This is a list of the Pennsylvania state historical markers in Berks County. This is intended to be a complete list of the official state historical markers placed in Berks County, Pennsylvania by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC). The locations of the historical markers, as well ...